JAKARTA, 4 April 2019 – Today, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with UL, launched the fifth annual ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women. The 2019 prize will highlight the theme of the “Circular Economy” and will be awarded to two [...]

JAKARTA, 4 April 2019 - The 17th Meeting of the ASEAN-Russia Joint Cooperation Committee (ARJCC) took place at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on 2 April 2019 and was co-chaired by Ade Padmo Sarwono, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to ASEAN, and Alexander Ivanov, Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN. The ARJCC was focused on the implementation [...]

TOKYO, 04 April 2019 – More than a hundred youth leaders from ASEAN and Timor-Leste gathered in Tokyo to learn from Japan’s experience and expertise in utilising technology to address and solve the region’s issues. The participants were grouped based on their educational background to learn about food tourism, disaster prevention, history of manufacturing, as [...]